Chapter 104: Trump Card

  Over a thousand half-saints charged forward in unison, and the number of clones was still increasing. All the clones were only charging towards one Dou Zun. On the surface, the gap between the two sides' strength was extremely obvious. Even if it was a medicine dust-level half-saint, they would be torn to pieces in an instant under this move.

  However, countless clones were easily destroyed one by one by this young man!

  Consumed by a milky white flame, swallowed by eerie darkness, even if several avatars could approach this little guy, he dodged them as if he had foreknowledge and counterattacked. That speed, that attack power, has completely surpassed the realm of Dou Zun.

  "This is impossible! The Tian Huan Lei I obtained, combined with this endless Tian Lei formation, can't even defeat him?" Seeing the unbelievable situation in front of him, the old master became even more frantic in absorbing the external heavenly energy, and the production of the Thunder Avatar accelerated, but under Xiao Xing Meng's attack, it actually showed a decreasing trend.

  Lao Zi's APM is at least over 300, do you think relying solely on brute force would be enough to take me down? Xiao Xing Meng struck out with one palm, and several of Lei's clones were easily dispersed. With a single kick, the space was torn apart by the instantaneous acceleration, and in the next moment, he had already arrived in front of Lao Gezhu.

  "You keep creating clones, but it only makes their strength deteriorate further. None of your clones have ever had even a hundredth of your original strength!"

  "Moreover, the communication jade slip on your body is practically telling me which one of you is the real deal."

  Clutching his right fist, the pure lotus demon fire's milky white flames shot towards the old pavilion master's true body, but didn't hit a physical sensation, only a lightning clone dispersing under this strike that could destroy a mountain peak. Xiao Xing Meng furrowed his brow and looked back, grinning: "You can actually switch positions with your clone, I'm getting more and more interested in the thunder on you."

  "Even the faint communication of Lian Yu Jian, he can accurately identify it in the previous split body. This kid, how strong is his soul perception?" The old master who exchanged positions with Lei's clone at a critical moment was still frightened. He indeed had a communication jade slip on him, and 'that person' was watching the battlefield situation all along. Even if he lost to Xiao Xing Meng, he could let him probe his strength, because those people who fought with him before were all killed.

  The old master originally didn't even give him a glance, but now he realizes that the target of "that person" might not have been to defeat himself, but rather to use himself as a measuring stick.

  "You're watching, huh? It seems like you plan to rely on this person to gauge my strength. Well, I'll use my trump card then - the strongest half-saint, who doesn't even have the ability to gauge my strength."

  Endless clones, combined with the ability to swap positions with his clones, made the old master nearly unbeatable in this space, even among half-saints. Even if he wasn't afraid, it would still take a considerable amount of time to defeat him. Using his "Horizontal Sweep of a Thousand Armies" technique without condensing his aura wouldn't give him enough time, so Xiao Xing Meng decided to use his trump card. This move was impossible to decipher even if one knew its true nature, and among the Martial Emperors, only Tu Sheng Gu could match it.

  As soon as Xiao Xing Meng's words fell, the old patriarch felt a heavy blow to his chest, his chest caved in, and the flames of Jing Lian Yao Huo spread from the wound, burning fiercely. The old patriarch's desperate eyes finally looked at Xiao Xing Meng, who had somehow appeared in front of him with his right fist striking himself, slowly falling down, and as his main body died, the surrounding clones also dissipated simultaneously.

  Xiao Xing Meng took over the jade slip and smiled at him: "How? Have you seen what's going on? The fog has cleared, hasn't it?"

  Jade Ann was in a state of communication, but she remained silent.

  "If you weren't so fixated on Xiao Yan, perhaps you could have fooled me." Regardless of the reaction from the other side, in the void space, Xiao Xing Meng said to himself while holding the jade slip: "Back then at the Xiao family, I really underestimated your hiding methods, and you even managed to deceive me. However, if it's someone who is fixated on Xiao Yan, there are only a few possibilities, and you are the most suspicious one."

  "I sent someone to excavate the Xiao family's old mansion in Wutang City, and we found some interesting things... but also some things that should have been there were gone."

  Xiao Xing Meng gazed at the jade slip, saying slowly: "The thing that disappeared is your corpse. It's supposed to be the body of Xiao Yan's mother, Xiao Qin, who should have died over ten years ago due to illness! In the Xiao family, you're the type who stays hidden in the inner chambers, I've only seen you a handful of times and just remembered you as a weak and sickly guy. Who would have thought that someone with the shallow bloodline of the Emperor would end up in the Xiao family?"

  "This thing often happens in fake play and real doing, after a while it will turn you into a real dead person."

  Pinched to pieces jade, at this time the old pavilion master's body was just burned clean by the net lotus demon fire, leaving only a white thunder species. After Xiao Xing Meng swallowed it into his body, he opened up space and left this place.

  Of course, Xiao Xing Meng didn't simply lock his target on Xiao Qin, but having read the original work, he knew that Xiao Yan had an extremely shallow Bloodline Power, and would later be able to unlock his clan markings with the help of the Heaven Fire Three Essences Transformation, and obtain the Medicine Elder's ring left by his mother. At the time, he thought it was just a pig's foot halo causing the variation in bloodline, the pig's foot halo even caused the transmission of power from the grandfather. Because there wasn't a single bit of Bloodline Power on Xiao Zhan's body.

  Now it seems that one coincidence is a coincidence, but multiple coincidences are a conspiracy, and this sentence is really true.

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  On the other side of the jade slip, "Rong Nian" and Xiao Qin were in a room. As Xiao Xing Meng crushed the jade slip, this side's jade slip also dimmed accordingly.

  "Mrs. Hua, what do you think of that move Xiao Xingmeng just made...?" Xiao Qin wore a simple white dress and looked no different from an ordinary housewife, but at this moment she had a thoughtful expression on her face, seemingly not tense at all about her identity being known.

  "This... even I couldn't see it coming, but this Xiao Xing Meng is probably some old monster from the Soul Clan. The strength and fighting skills he showed just now are something that even the younger generation of the Soul Clan can't match. The death of Young Master and Second Young Master must also be related to him, don't you feel angry about it, Miss?" Huayun shook her head, Xiao Xing Meng's move had already completely exceeded her understanding.

  "Are you talking about Xiao Lie and Xiao Ding?" Xiang Qin sneered, "Those two children are mediocre and useless! Only Xiao Yan is worthy of inheriting my qualities, he's the only one who can be considered as my true child! But their deaths will serve as a driving force for Yan to become stronger, so they died for a good reason!"

  "It's infuriating, that guy, taking advantage of the master being closed off and not dealing with matters, his attitude towards me has become more and more blatant recently. Otherwise, I could have mobilized more power to deal with that Soul Clan spy! To get rid of this guy for Yan Er, why did it have to come to this!" Xiao Qin recalled how that person had greatly obstructed her a few years ago, causing her to be unable to make a move while watching Xiao Xing Meng being bullied, and couldn't help but become enraged. A thread of Dou Qi burst out of her body, astonishingly easily shattering a piece of space.

  "Miss, don't be impulsive, we don't have the power to clash with the Soul Clan." Aunt Hua hastily advised: "However, fortunately, Young Master Xiao Yan has been gradually getting stronger, everything is going according to Miss's plan. Back then, when Miss married that guy Xiao Zhan, she also gave the ring with the abandoned soul of the Medicine Clan to Third Young Master, wasn't it to make him stronger? As for Xiao Xing Meng, I think he doesn't have any intention of dealing with Third Young Master for now."

  Xiao Zhan picked up his sword, Xiao Qin closed her eyes and said: "What about that guy?"

  "After I rescued him from the hands of those little brats in the ancient tribe, I locked him up alone in a room. To this day, it's still someone pretending to be Soul Temple who goes to see him, and he still thinks it was Soul Temple that took him away."

  "Good!" Xiao Qin's face lit up with joy, saying: "Once Yan Er has the strength to challenge the Soul Palace, we can almost send Xiao Zhan out. Hatred will make Yan Er stronger and stronger!"

  Mrs. Hua looked at the young lady she had served for most of her life and couldn't help but shudder, she had never really understood the young lady of their house. Because her two sons and husband were not gifted enough, she didn't care about them, only seeing them as a driving force to make that exceptionally talented son stronger.

  Tigers don't eat their own cubs, but humans sometimes are more terrifying than monsters.